Compendium of Election Laws, Practices and Cases of Selected Commonwealth CountriesCommonwealth Secretariat, 1996 - 808 pages This compendium presents the constitutional provisions and election laws of a number of selected Commonwealth countries in a user-friendly way. In order to make comparative analyses easier, wherever possible each legislative scheme is presented in a common format, highlighting those features which are considered to be a part of the essential framework of that scheme. Volume 1 covers election cases of note in Australia, Nauru, New Zealand. Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. |
Contents
Introduction | 804 |
REGISTRATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES | 812 |
SECTION 6WRITS FOR ELECTIONS | 833 |
SECTION 9PREPOLL VOTING | 844 |
Notes | 883 |
CONTENTS | 887 |
SECTION 7 THE SCRUTINY | 895 |
Introduction | 906 |
Introduction | 1436 |
Notes | 1447 |
Introduction | 1452 |
SECTION 4ELECTORAL PROCEDURE | 1463 |
SECTION 5 PROCEDURE ON POLLING DAY | 1470 |
SECTION 6 ELECTION EXPENSES | 1483 |
Introduction | 1567 |
Introduction | 1038 |
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